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RUNNING FOR LOVE

‘I’m a don’t-tell-me no person’

On January 10 last year, Janelle Brunton-Rennie and her husband Kurt celebrated their third wedding anniversary. Their little girl, Sage, had just turned four months old, and Janelle was looking forward to a wonderful year ahead. The following day, Kurt came out of the shower, prodded his stomach where his spleen was, and asked, “Do you think this feels a little bit hard?” Janelle casually replied, “Yeah, you should get that looked at,” thought nothing of it, and went off to work.

That afternoon she got a call from Kurt who had been to see his doctor and was heading down the road for an ultrasound. From there, things unravelled at rapid pace. After a CT scan on the Friday, the couple got a

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